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3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the additive manufacturing process necessary to build it, and developing methods to confirm the consistency and reliability of its printed components.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy

Simulations forecast nationwide increase in human exposure to extreme climate events

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using ORNL's now-decommissioned Titan supercomputer, a team of researchers estimated the combined consequences of many different extreme climate events at the county level, a unique approach that provided unprecedented regional and national climate projections that identified the areas most likely to face climate-related challenges.

Funder: National Climate Computing Research Center, National Center for Atmospheric Research, DOE/US Department of Energy

Story tips: Tracking populations, UPS' special delivery and a long-awaited benchmark

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL Story Tips: Tracking populations, UPS' special delivery and a long-awaited benchmark.

Funder: Department of Energy Office of Science; DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy; Department of Defense; DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies Office

Major upgrades of particle detectors + electronics prepare CERN experiment to stream a data tsunami

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For a gargantuan nuclear physics experiment at CERN that will generate big data at unprecedented rates--called A Large Ion Collider Experiment, or ALICE -- the University of Tennessee has worked with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to lead a group of U.S. nuclear physicists from a suite of institutions in the design, development, mass production and delivery of a significant upgrade of novel particle detectors and state-of-the art electronics.

Advanced software framework expedites quantum-classical programming

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An ORNL team developed the XACC software framework to help researchers harness the potential power of quantum processing units, or QPUs. XACC offloads portions of quantum-classical computing workloads from the host CPU to an attached quantum accelerator, which calculates results and sends them back to the original system.

Successful delivery: ORNL demonstrates bi-directional wireless charging on UPS truck

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system installed on a UPS medium-duty, plug-in hybrid electric delivery truck. The project is the first of its kind to achieve power transfer at this rate across an 11-inch air gap, advancing the technology to a new class of larger vehicles with higher ground clearance.

Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office

ORNL's Brian Post named SME Young Engineer of the Year

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Brian Post, a researcher in large-scale additive manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award by the Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME).

Mitch Allmond

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In the Physics Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, James ("Mitch") Allmond conducts experiments and uses theoretical models to advance our understanding of the structure of atomic nuclei, which are made of various combinations of protons and neutrons (nucleons).

"I focus on describing how nucleons organize and what patterns emerge from those organizations," Allmond said.

ORNL is in the fight against COVID-19

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In the race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.

Kat Royston: Finding excitement in nuclear physics

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As a teenager, Kat Royston discovered that physics could give her answers to her questions about the ways the world works. Now, as a researcher in ORNL's Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division, she works on unraveling the mysteries of fission and fusion around the world - including research for the ITER and JET fusion experiments.

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